Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase Committee Annual Members' Show
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Refugee Art Exhibit

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Works of 4 artists from Cuba, Sudan, and Vietnam.

For more information, phone Anh Nguyen at 315-422-1593 x210.

Gallery Exhibit: Jim Dwyer
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Contemporary artwork, non-representational paintings focusing on the energy of color, fabricated from canvas and wood.

Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, Photographs By Geoffrey Clifford, 1985-2000
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Featuring works by: Vinh Dang, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Joshua Harris, Bea Lee, Mai Lee, Mao Yang Lee, Hye Yeon Nam, Anh Thao and Phong Vu.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Judy Natal: The Hermetic Alphabet
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Community Darkrooms, Robt B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

German photographer Beatrix Reinhardt's images in the exhibition take an inside look at members-only clubs worldwide, which Reinhardt views as special entities that provide a community for their members while excluding everyone else. Her images capture the marks left behind by members of the club. They are devoid of people but speak volumes about club members.

Reinhardt spends most of her time making phone calls and knocking on doors to gain permission to enter clubs. Since starting the series in 2003, she has traveled to places as far away as Australia, Great Britain and China to capture these images. She is currently photographing in Queens, NY, where membership clubs are plentiful and rich in visuals. Some of these exclusive clubs can require years on a waiting list, and many have membership dues ranging from minimal to tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany, and has lived in the United States on and off for more than 10 years. She completed a residency at Light Work in January 2006 and has also participated in residencies in Australia, India and China. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Minnesota Center of Photography in Minneapolis, the Silver Eye Center of Photography in Pittsburgh, and Sam Romo in Atlanta. She will also have an exhibition this year in Finland.

Off Shoots: Post-Standard Staff Photographers
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features the work that the staff photographers of The Post-Standard make in their off hours. The images capture such subjects as family, friends, vacations, or personal projects.

Overcoming Inertia: Works of Kathryn Rose Martini, fibers artist
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Kathryn Rose Martini graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Fiber Structure and Interlocking. Beyond exhibitions over the past 6 years she has used her interest in creativity within the community working with children, both in the visual arts and conducting dance interactive workshops hoping to promote a comfort and curiousity in the arts. She has donated her time and efforts to several local non-profit institutions and organizations. Recent work is on view through September 30 at the Delavan Art Gallery in their Fashion Fashion exhibition. Martini lives and works in Syracuse.

Through a Glass Dimly: Works of Willam Finch, painter
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Jeffrey McDaniel, poet
Raymond Carver Reading Series

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase Committee Annual Members' Show
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Refugee Art Exhibit

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Works of 4 artists from Cuba, Sudan, and Vietnam.

For more information, phone Anh Nguyen at 315-422-1593 x210.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gallery Exhibit: Jim Dwyer
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Contemporary artwork, non-representational paintings focusing on the energy of color, fabricated from canvas and wood.

Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Featuring works by: Vinh Dang, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Joshua Harris, Bea Lee, Mai Lee, Mao Yang Lee, Hye Yeon Nam, Anh Thao and Phong Vu.

Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, Photographs By Geoffrey Clifford, 1985-2000
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Off Shoots: Post-Standard Staff Photographers
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features the work that the staff photographers of The Post-Standard make in their off hours. The images capture such subjects as family, friends, vacations, or personal projects.

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

German photographer Beatrix Reinhardt's images in the exhibition take an inside look at members-only clubs worldwide, which Reinhardt views as special entities that provide a community for their members while excluding everyone else. Her images capture the marks left behind by members of the club. They are devoid of people but speak volumes about club members.

Reinhardt spends most of her time making phone calls and knocking on doors to gain permission to enter clubs. Since starting the series in 2003, she has traveled to places as far away as Australia, Great Britain and China to capture these images. She is currently photographing in Queens, NY, where membership clubs are plentiful and rich in visuals. Some of these exclusive clubs can require years on a waiting list, and many have membership dues ranging from minimal to tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany, and has lived in the United States on and off for more than 10 years. She completed a residency at Light Work in January 2006 and has also participated in residencies in Australia, India and China. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Minnesota Center of Photography in Minneapolis, the Silver Eye Center of Photography in Pittsburgh, and Sam Romo in Atlanta. She will also have an exhibition this year in Finland.

Judy Natal: The Hermetic Alphabet
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Community Darkrooms, Robt B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

Through a Glass Dimly: Works of Willam Finch, painter
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Overcoming Inertia: Works of Kathryn Rose Martini, fibers artist
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Kathryn Rose Martini graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Fiber Structure and Interlocking. Beyond exhibitions over the past 6 years she has used her interest in creativity within the community working with children, both in the visual arts and conducting dance interactive workshops hoping to promote a comfort and curiousity in the arts. She has donated her time and efforts to several local non-profit institutions and organizations. Recent work is on view through September 30 at the Delavan Art Gallery in their Fashion Fashion exhibition. Martini lives and works in Syracuse.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

Fashion Fashion
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Presenting fashion as fine art. There are many designers of high quality fashion art living and producing their work in the Central New York area. The intent of this show, three years in planning, is to acquaint the people of this area with the rich diversity of talent in their midst. "FASHION FASHION" features the work of area designers, jewelers, fashion illustrators and fashion photographers and also includes Cazenovia College's "Look Again" label as well as theatrical costumes by Syracuse Stage.

"FASHION FASHION" includes fashions and accessories by Gail Calloway, Cazenovia College Fashion Studies, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Hilary Gifford, Jean Henry, Jakobine, Amanda Jensen, Paul Kench, Kathryn Rose Martini, Laurel Morton, Lisa A. Morrill, Mary Ann Niemczura, Kristin Palazzoli, Vi Ransel, Reyen Design Studios, Markie Roe, Kathleen Schneider and Christine Sickler; jewelry by Leslie Banach, Michelle DaRin, Barbara A. Floch, Christine More, Deborah Rogers, Jeni Rose Designs, C. Thomas and DeeAnn vonHunke; fashion photography by Robert Carroll, Ron Goodrich and Kätlin Kool; fashion illustration by Angela DeVita; as well as theatrical costumes by Syracuse Stage.

Eye on Cinema
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographic art by Judy Pfaff, Sandy Skoglund, and Rob Van Erve.

Al Gore
University Lectures

Price: $10 general public; $5 SU and ESF students (all tickets subject to the Landmark's $2 convenience fee)
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Gore, the 45th Vice President of the United States, began his political career in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976. As vice president, he was a key player in the Clinton White House on a wide range of issues. His career as an environmentalist includes pioneering efforts to protect the Earth's ozone layer and to eliminate toxic waste from the environment. His passion for protecting the environment is evident in his best-selling book, "Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit" (Plume Books, 1992). He is also author of the recently released, 328-page paperback An Inconvenient Truth (Rodale Books, 2006).

Gore's role as a leading emissary on the dangers of global warming has been reinforced by his documentary An Inconvenient Truth, released in select markets May 24 and now nationally, as well as in Syracuse, on Friday. In the film, Gore -- a powerful and effective speaker -- makes an urgent and compelling case for responsible environmental policy based on solid scientific evidence.

Tickets for students of SU and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry will be available online through the Landmark Theatre ticket office beginning Aug. 23; general admission tickets will be available to the public beginning Sept. 2.

The Y-Files: Where are the Cows?
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25.95 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive comedy/mystery dinner theater.

Friday, September 15, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase Committee Annual Members' Show
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Refugee Art Exhibit

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Works of 4 artists from Cuba, Sudan, and Vietnam.

For more information, phone Anh Nguyen at 315-422-1593 x210.

Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, Photographs By Geoffrey Clifford, 1985-2000
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Featuring works by: Vinh Dang, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Joshua Harris, Bea Lee, Mai Lee, Mao Yang Lee, Hye Yeon Nam, Anh Thao and Phong Vu.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Off Shoots: Post-Standard Staff Photographers
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features the work that the staff photographers of The Post-Standard make in their off hours. The images capture such subjects as family, friends, vacations, or personal projects.

Judy Natal: The Hermetic Alphabet
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Community Darkrooms, Robt B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

German photographer Beatrix Reinhardt's images in the exhibition take an inside look at members-only clubs worldwide, which Reinhardt views as special entities that provide a community for their members while excluding everyone else. Her images capture the marks left behind by members of the club. They are devoid of people but speak volumes about club members.

Reinhardt spends most of her time making phone calls and knocking on doors to gain permission to enter clubs. Since starting the series in 2003, she has traveled to places as far away as Australia, Great Britain and China to capture these images. She is currently photographing in Queens, NY, where membership clubs are plentiful and rich in visuals. Some of these exclusive clubs can require years on a waiting list, and many have membership dues ranging from minimal to tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany, and has lived in the United States on and off for more than 10 years. She completed a residency at Light Work in January 2006 and has also participated in residencies in Australia, India and China. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Minnesota Center of Photography in Minneapolis, the Silver Eye Center of Photography in Pittsburgh, and Sam Romo in Atlanta. She will also have an exhibition this year in Finland.

Overcoming Inertia: Works of Kathryn Rose Martini, fibers artist
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Kathryn Rose Martini graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Fiber Structure and Interlocking. Beyond exhibitions over the past 6 years she has used her interest in creativity within the community working with children, both in the visual arts and conducting dance interactive workshops hoping to promote a comfort and curiousity in the arts. She has donated her time and efforts to several local non-profit institutions and organizations. Recent work is on view through September 30 at the Delavan Art Gallery in their Fashion Fashion exhibition. Martini lives and works in Syracuse.

Through a Glass Dimly: Works of Willam Finch, painter
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Sculpture Unveiling: OCC Visual Arts Professor Andrew Schuster
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Onondaga Community College
Onondaga Hill, Syracuse

Location: Outside on the main campus between Coulter Library and the Academic Building.

Fashion Fashion
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Presenting fashion as fine art. There are many designers of high quality fashion art living and producing their work in the Central New York area. The intent of this show, three years in planning, is to acquaint the people of this area with the rich diversity of talent in their midst. "FASHION FASHION" features the work of area designers, jewelers, fashion illustrators and fashion photographers and also includes Cazenovia College's "Look Again" label as well as theatrical costumes by Syracuse Stage.

"FASHION FASHION" includes fashions and accessories by Gail Calloway, Cazenovia College Fashion Studies, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Hilary Gifford, Jean Henry, Jakobine, Amanda Jensen, Paul Kench, Kathryn Rose Martini, Laurel Morton, Lisa A. Morrill, Mary Ann Niemczura, Kristin Palazzoli, Vi Ransel, Reyen Design Studios, Markie Roe, Kathleen Schneider and Christine Sickler; jewelry by Leslie Banach, Michelle DaRin, Barbara A. Floch, Christine More, Deborah Rogers, Jeni Rose Designs, C. Thomas and DeeAnn vonHunke; fashion photography by Robert Carroll, Ron Goodrich and Kätlin Kool; fashion illustration by Angela DeVita; as well as theatrical costumes by Syracuse Stage.

Eye on Cinema
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographic art by Judy Pfaff, Sandy Skoglund, and Rob Van Erve.

Gallery Talk -- Miriam Beerman: Expressionist Work
Everson Museum of Art

Price: $10 non-members; free for members
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Artist Miriam Beerman will present an introduction to the exhibit Eloquent Pain(t), providing a look at the exhibition as well as her past and current creative expressions. A woman whose work is infused with passion, Beerman will share her own life experiences and reflect on her inspirations.

Folkus Project
Rod MacDonald

Price: $10
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Veteran performer and Wind River recording artist Rod MacDonald, known for his delightful political and social satire, opens the Folkus Project's concert season with songs from his new CD, A Tale of Two Americas, as well as many of his well-known and often-requested classics.

With a reverence for life and concern for humanity, MacDonald seamlessly weaves together romantic ballads and politically charged but deliciously tongue-in-cheek political and social commentaries. On A Tale of Two Americas, he continues his perceptive commentary on our social and political times, proving that he's a master at musically portraying the difficult issues facing this country and the world.

MacDonald's 9-11 tribute from his previous CD, "My Neighbors In Delray," was selected as a Folk Category finalist in the USA Songwriting Competition. In contrast to other songs about 9-11, "Neighbors" is a questioning, reflective commentary, an observation of the 9-11 terrorists' adaptation to Florida's casual lifestyle, their easy integration into the culture, and how they unobtrusively mapped out their terrorist activities while residing only blocks away from MacDonald's home.

Throughout a 30-year performing career, MacDonald has entertained audiences worldwide with a diverse song-bag of timeless ballads and modern folk songs. His writing and performance effortlessly mix musical genres, creating a style of modern folk tinged with blues, light jazz, and pop. His engaging delivery, multi-textured voice, insightful lyrics, and poetic imagery continue to place him among the elite of singer-songwriters performing in North America today.

MacDonald got his start as a major character in the 1980s Greenwich Village folk renaissance. He frequently headlined at New York's Speakeasy and Folk City clubs. His unforgettable performance at The Bottom Line of his signature song "American Jerusalem" was heralded by fans and media alike as a defining moment in folk music history. He has appeared onstage with notables like Pete Seeger, Tom Chapin, Dave Van Ronk, Suzanne Vega, Doc Watson, John Gorka, and Emmylou Harris.

For reservations, email tickets@folkus.org or call 315-440-7444.

Torch Song Trilogy
Rarely Done Productions
Moe Harrington, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, Torch Song Trilogy, by Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein, chronicles a New Yorker's search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him. From Arnold's hilarious steps toward domestic bliss with a reluctant school teacher, to his first truly promising love affair with a young fashion model, Arnold's greatest challenge remains his complicated relationship with his mother. But armed with a keenly developed sense of humor and often times piercing wit, Arnold continues to test the commonly accepted terms of endearment -- and endurance -- in a universally affecting story that confirms that happiness is well worth carrying a torch for.

Read a review!

Playing Doctor
Appleseed Productions
Greg J. Hipius, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Rob Brewster's parents are very, very proud of their son the doctor. What they don't know is that Rob has used all the money they gave him for medical school to live on as he as has pursued his fledgling writing career. Inevitably, Rob's day of reckoning comes when his parents arrive for a visit. Quickly, he enlists the help of his secretary to be his nurse and his roommate Jimmy to round up his actor friends to pretend to be patients. Complications ensue when Jimmy decides he is such a good actor that he can impersonate all the patients, with the help of a trunk of costumes and bad dialects! William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore have written some zany farces, but this one may just be their zaniest. It is great fun to perform, and great fun to see.

Read a review!

A Naked Girl on the Appian Way
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 seniors; $16 students; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In A Naked Girl On The Appian Way by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg, reading, breeding and sibling rivalry take on a whole new twist. This smart and irreverent comedy is about a wildly non-traditional family testing tolerance, acceptance, and the outer limits of love.

The Lapins -- Bess, a successful cookbook author, and her husband Jeffrey, an industry mogul -- await the homecoming of two of their children from a year of European travel. The children reveal surprising news that has mother and father dazed, confused, and questioning the path to proper parenting.

Read a Review!

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Fashion Fashion
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Presenting fashion as fine art. There are many designers of high quality fashion art living and producing their work in the Central New York area. The intent of this show, three years in planning, is to acquaint the people of this area with the rich diversity of talent in their midst. "FASHION FASHION" features the work of area designers, jewelers, fashion illustrators and fashion photographers and also includes Cazenovia College's "Look Again" label as well as theatrical costumes by Syracuse Stage.

"FASHION FASHION" includes fashions and accessories by Gail Calloway, Cazenovia College Fashion Studies, Barbara Conte-Gaugel, Hilary Gifford, Jean Henry, Jakobine, Amanda Jensen, Paul Kench, Kathryn Rose Martini, Laurel Morton, Lisa A. Morrill, Mary Ann Niemczura, Kristin Palazzoli, Vi Ransel, Reyen Design Studios, Markie Roe, Kathleen Schneider and Christine Sickler; jewelry by Leslie Banach, Michelle DaRin, Barbara A. Floch, Christine More, Deborah Rogers, Jeni Rose Designs, C. Thomas and DeeAnn vonHunke; fashion photography by Robert Carroll, Ron Goodrich and Kätlin Kool; fashion illustration by Angela DeVita; as well as theatrical costumes by Syracuse Stage.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

Through a Glass Dimly: Works of Willam Finch, painter
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Overcoming Inertia: Works of Kathryn Rose Martini, fibers artist
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Kathryn Rose Martini graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Fiber Structure and Interlocking. Beyond exhibitions over the past 6 years she has used her interest in creativity within the community working with children, both in the visual arts and conducting dance interactive workshops hoping to promote a comfort and curiousity in the arts. She has donated her time and efforts to several local non-profit institutions and organizations. Recent work is on view through September 30 at the Delavan Art Gallery in their Fashion Fashion exhibition. Martini lives and works in Syracuse.

Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Featuring works by: Vinh Dang, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Joshua Harris, Bea Lee, Mai Lee, Mao Yang Lee, Hye Yeon Nam, Anh Thao and Phong Vu.

Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, Photographs By Geoffrey Clifford, 1985-2000
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

Eye on Cinema
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Photographic art by Judy Pfaff, Sandy Skoglund, and Rob Van Erve.

Johan Lowie: Call to Silence
Redhouse

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An exhibition of oil paintings by Belgian artist Johan Lowie focuses on the human drama, while capturing personal stories and emotions in the Surrealist style.

"My work focuses on the human drama, capturing stories and emotions in one image. The story of waking up at four o'clock in the morning will all your negative feelings of doom, despair or the feeling of pure happiness. How does love feel? The loss of a friend, the first days of spring? The tale of sorrow or eufory captured in deep understanding, the theatre of life in a light of color and composition. How do you paint these human travels universally without showing the obvious but deeper meaning with color and composition."

Artist Workshop and Gallery Talks
Community Folk Art Center
Featuring Joshua Harris, Hye Yeon Nam

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Gallery talks and an artist workshop in conjunction with the exhibition "Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity." At 12:00 p.m., Joshua Harris, a New York City-based artist, will give a gallery talk and brush painting demonstration. At 1:00 p.m., Ithaca artist Hye Yeon Nam will give a gallery talk.

Artist Lecture and Reception
Redhouse
Featuring Johan Lowie

Price: Free
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Excelsior Cornet Band
LeMoyne College

Price: $12 regular, $7 seniors, free for students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The Excelsior Cornet Band is New York state's only authentic Civil War brass band. Founded in 2001, the band consists of a group of upstate New York musicians who are dedicated to the performance of original Civil War music on actual antique brass band instruments of the 1860s period. Recreating the glorious sounds and appearance of this pivotal period in American history, the band performs the most popular melodies of the 1850-1870 period, as well as patriotic airs, operatic medleys, marches, and dance music by the era's most renowned composers and bandmasters. All of the band's musical arrangements come from the bandbooks of Civil War era bands, or are arranged from the original Civil War era sheet music. The musicians of the Excelsior Cornet Band are professional performers with many years of experience in a wide variety of musical genres. They perform with a polished enthusiasm that brings the music of the Civil War brass band era to life. Their uniforms authentically and accurately represent those of a typical early-war New York state militia band.

The event will conclude with an encampment reenactment by Syracuse's own 12th Regiment on the lawn outside of the W. Carroll Coyne Performing Arts Center.

8th Annual Arts and Puppet Festival
Open Hand Theater

Price: Free
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

11:00 am - Brazilian Dance Ensemble
11:30 am - Puppet Show: The Stonecutter
12:15 pm - The Secret of the Puppet's Book
1:00 pm - Open Hand Theater's Giant Puppet Circus
2:15 pm - South Indian Classical Dance Group
3:15 pm - Puppet Show: The Chocolate War

Also:
Wandering puppets large and small
Mask and puppet making workshops
Juggling lessons
Storytelling
Ice cream giveaway
Imagination station puppet play
Vietnamese Festival of Lanterns procession

Little Red Riding Hood
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Torch Song Trilogy
Rarely Done Productions
Moe Harrington, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, Torch Song Trilogy, by Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein, chronicles a New Yorker's search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him. From Arnold's hilarious steps toward domestic bliss with a reluctant school teacher, to his first truly promising love affair with a young fashion model, Arnold's greatest challenge remains his complicated relationship with his mother. But armed with a keenly developed sense of humor and often times piercing wit, Arnold continues to test the commonly accepted terms of endearment -- and endurance -- in a universally affecting story that confirms that happiness is well worth carrying a torch for.

Read a review!

Playing Doctor
Appleseed Productions
Greg J. Hipius, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Rob Brewster's parents are very, very proud of their son the doctor. What they don't know is that Rob has used all the money they gave him for medical school to live on as he as has pursued his fledgling writing career. Inevitably, Rob's day of reckoning comes when his parents arrive for a visit. Quickly, he enlists the help of his secretary to be his nurse and his roommate Jimmy to round up his actor friends to pretend to be patients. Complications ensue when Jimmy decides he is such a good actor that he can impersonate all the patients, with the help of a trunk of costumes and bad dialects! William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore have written some zany farces, but this one may just be their zaniest. It is great fun to perform, and great fun to see.

Read a review!

A Naked Girl on the Appian Way
Redhouse
Gerard E. Moses, director

Price: $25 regular; $20 seniors; $16 students; $8 student rush
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In A Naked Girl On The Appian Way by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg, reading, breeding and sibling rivalry take on a whole new twist. This smart and irreverent comedy is about a wildly non-traditional family testing tolerance, acceptance, and the outer limits of love.

The Lapins -- Bess, a successful cookbook author, and her husband Jeffrey, an industry mogul -- await the homecoming of two of their children from a year of European travel. The children reveal surprising news that has mother and father dazed, confused, and questioning the path to proper parenting.

Read a Review!

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

A Cavalcade of American Popuar Music
Jazz Appreciation Society of Syracuse
Featuring Phil Klein

Price: $10, members of Jazz Appreciation Society of Syracuse, $12 non members
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Westcott Street Cultural Fair

Price: Free
Westcott Business District
Westcott St., Syraucuse

The Westcott Street Cultural Fair is an annual, one-day celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of the Westcott neighborhood through its culture -- visual and performing arts, food, service organizations, and activities geared to families and SU and LeMoyne students returning to the neighborhood.

Rain date: Sept. 24.

Main Stage at Dorians
Host: WAER
1:00-1:15: Raging Grannies
1:30-2:30: Tom Townsley & the Backsliders
3:00-4:00: Isreal Hagan & Stroke
4:30-5:30: Nancy Kelly
6:00-7:00: Westcott Jug Suckers

Dell Street Diversity Stage
Host: Syracuse University
1:00-1:10: Bhangra
1:15-1:25: RAICES Dance Troupe
1:35-1:45: Groovestand
2:00-2:45: Cassidy/McCale
2:55-3:05: syRAAScuse
3:15-4:00: Jonathan Dinkin & Klezmercuse
4:15-5:00: Simple Gifts Praise Band
5:15: Curbside Appeal Winners
6:00-7:00: Son Boricua

Taps Acoustic Stage
Host: Syracuse Friends of Folk
12:30-1:10: Bergman Broom
1:15-2:00: Jamie Notarthomas
2:15-3:00: One Black Voice
3:00-3:15: Raging Grannies
3:15-4:00: Five to Life
4:00-4:45: Ashley Cox Band
5:00-5:45: Joe Davoli & Harvey Nussbaum
6:00-7:00: Marcia Rutledge

Harvard Dance Stage
Host: la Familia de la Salsa
1:00-1:30: Irani/Afghani Dance
1:30-2:00: Bassett Street Hounds Morris Dance Group
2:00-2:30: Gnarly Upstate Skateboarders
2:30-3:00: Just a Little Project
3:00-3:30: Gnarly Upstate Skateboarders
4:00-5:00: La Familia de la Salsa
5:15-7:00: David Etse Nyadedzor and Biboti Ouikahilo

Kids Korner Stage at Petit Library
Host: WCNY's George Kilpatrick
1:00-1:30: Tom Knight & Puppets
1:45-2:15: Toddler's Tango
2:30-3:00: The Wizard of Oobooz
3:15-3:45: Tom Knight & Puppets
4:00-4:30: Onondaga Creek Kids
4:45-5:30: Savannah Juvanis

Teen Scene Stage
Host: Westcott Neighborhood Teens
1:00-1:45: The Media Unit
2:00-2:30: Melissa Ahern
3:00-3:30: Ham on Wry
3:30-4:15: Zeroed In
5:00-5:30: Low Key
5:45-6:15: Herizon
6:30-7:00: Innocence

Beech Street Bellydance Stage
Host: Syracuse Area Bellydance Association (SABA)
12:30-1:00: Drum Circle
1:00-1:30: Louise Epolito Students
1:30-2:00: Amirah
2:00-2:30: Maya Tribe
2:30-3:00: Hannah's Hips, Trieste & Hannah
3:00-3:30: Belly Be-Bop
3:30-4:00: Desert Rhythms
4:00-4:30: Full Moon Tribal
4:30-5:00: Donia's Group
5:00-5:30: Drum Circle
5:30-6:00: Shezam!
6:00-6:30: Open Dance

In Recital: In Search of Mozart's Clarinets
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Allan Klosky, clarinet

Price: $15
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Multimedia lecture/recital on Mozart's Quartet for Clarinet and Strings after K. 317d (featuring 5-key clarinet), "Non piu di fiori" from La Claemenza di Tito, K. 621 (featuring basset horn obbligato), Clarinet Quintet, K. 581, and Clarinet Concerto, K. 622 (featuring extended range basset clarinet).

Additional performers include Sar-Shalom Strong, piano; Janet Brown, soprano; Petia Radneva-Manolova, violin; Sonya Williams, violin; Kitt Dodd, viola; and Gregory Wood, cello.

Real Quiet
Featuring Andrew Russo, keyboards; Felix Fan, cello; David Cossin, percussion

Price: Free
Festa Italiana
Washington St., Downtown Syracuse

Music by composers Marc Mellits, Ed Ruchalski, Phil Kline and Annie Gosfield.

Skip Parsons and the Riverboat Jazz Band

Price: $12
LeMoyne Manor
629 Old Liverpool Rd., Liverpool

Old-time band plays upbeat jazz standards.

Katharine Pardee, organ
Malmgren Concert Series

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

We warmly welcome back Katharine Pardee in celebration of the 15th year of the Malmgrem Series at Hendricks Chapel. Katie was part of the first concert inaugurating the series in September 1991 and will play works of Mendelssohn, Bach, Durufle, and others. Katie is a Betts Scholar in Organ Studies at the University of Oxford, as well as Brookman Organ scholar at Wadham College. Between 1988 and 2000, she served as the university Organist, Hendricks Chapel Director of Music, and taught at the School of Music.

Theater Pipe Organ Concert
Syracuse Wurlitzer
Featuring Byron Jones

Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

TK99 Soundcheck - Live @ The Redhouse
Redhouse
Featuring 12AM and Dusty Pascal

Price: $5
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Redhouse will be the setting once again for the airing of Soundcheck, the Central New York music radio show hosted by Dave Frisina on TK99/TK105 (WTKW). The show will air 'live' over the radio in front of a studio audience.

Matthew and the Muse; The Audition; and The Deed
Armory Square Playwrights

Price: $5 regular, $4 students/seniors
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Script-in-hand readings of three short new plays by local playwrights, with a talkback session following.

Matthew and the Muse, a comedy by Richard Harris:
Matthew is assigned to write an article on St. Paul for the N.Y. Episcopal Review, but writer's block is making it impossible. Matthew's muse suddenly appears but she's rather inexperienced and is interested principally in mixing martinis while urging Matthew to meet his deadline. An argument ensues, but creativity eventually wins out.

The Audition, a comedy by Richard Harris:
A brother and sister are anxious to find work in the theater, and a producer shows up at the luxury home they're borrowing. He is convinced that he should audition them for his latest production, but expects them to invest in the play in return for a role in it. Things look bleak until an unplanned audition results in a surprise ending.

The Deed, a drama by Joel Potash

When Manny and Helen Donofrio are dying, they find that control of their personal lives, their wishes and their financial and medical concerns suddenly pass out of their own hands and into the hands of others, including Helen's son, who is interested in the deed to her house, a sympathetic social worker and a Catholic priest.

Richard Harris is a retired advertising executive and a veteran actor who recently appeared in "A Member of the Wedding" at Redhouse. His short play "Encounter" was made into a 10-minute film and won an award at the 2005 Cayuga Community College Film Festival. He is a member of the Armory Square Playhouse Playwrights Unit.

Joel Potash is a local family physician. He currently practices at the Onondaga Nation Health Center and is a senior ethics consultant at University Hospital. He is a member of the Armory Square Playhouse Playwrights Unit and is Treasurer of the group.

Angels with Broken Wings: The Street
The Media Unit

Price: Free
Westcott Business District
Westcott St., Syraucuse

Playing Doctor
Appleseed Productions
Greg J. Hipius, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 seniors/students
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Rob Brewster's parents are very, very proud of their son the doctor. What they don't know is that Rob has used all the money they gave him for medical school to live on as he as has pursued his fledgling writing career. Inevitably, Rob's day of reckoning comes when his parents arrive for a visit. Quickly, he enlists the help of his secretary to be his nurse and his roommate Jimmy to round up his actor friends to pretend to be patients. Complications ensue when Jimmy decides he is such a good actor that he can impersonate all the patients, with the help of a trunk of costumes and bad dialects! William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore have written some zany farces, but this one may just be their zaniest. It is great fun to perform, and great fun to see.

Read a review!

Monday, September 18, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase Committee Annual Members' Show
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Refugee Art Exhibit

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Works of 4 artists from Cuba, Sudan, and Vietnam.

For more information, phone Anh Nguyen at 315-422-1593 x210.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Off Shoots: Post-Standard Staff Photographers
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features the work that the staff photographers of The Post-Standard make in their off hours. The images capture such subjects as family, friends, vacations, or personal projects.

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

German photographer Beatrix Reinhardt's images in the exhibition take an inside look at members-only clubs worldwide, which Reinhardt views as special entities that provide a community for their members while excluding everyone else. Her images capture the marks left behind by members of the club. They are devoid of people but speak volumes about club members.

Reinhardt spends most of her time making phone calls and knocking on doors to gain permission to enter clubs. Since starting the series in 2003, she has traveled to places as far away as Australia, Great Britain and China to capture these images. She is currently photographing in Queens, NY, where membership clubs are plentiful and rich in visuals. Some of these exclusive clubs can require years on a waiting list, and many have membership dues ranging from minimal to tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany, and has lived in the United States on and off for more than 10 years. She completed a residency at Light Work in January 2006 and has also participated in residencies in Australia, India and China. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Minnesota Center of Photography in Minneapolis, the Silver Eye Center of Photography in Pittsburgh, and Sam Romo in Atlanta. She will also have an exhibition this year in Finland.

Judy Natal: The Hermetic Alphabet
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Community Darkrooms, Robt B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Speaker Series: Stanley Crouch
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Stanley Crouch is a noted author, jazz historian, novelist, essayist, critic, television commentator and New York Daily News columnist.

Naomi Shihab Nye, acclaimed poet, essayist and teacher
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Grewen Auditorium
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Nye was born to a Palestinian father and American mother and grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem and San Antonio. Drawing on her Palestinian-American heritage, the cultural diversity of her home in Texas, and her experiences traveling in many parts of the world including Asia and the Middle East, Nye uses her writing to attest to our shared humanity.

Featuring Angela Petrone Stratiy, deaf comedian

Price: $5
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Social preceding the show at 5:30 PM. Voice interperetation will be provided for the hearing.

This 90 minute comedy show kicks of National Deaf Awaremess Week.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase Committee Annual Members' Show
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Refugee Art Exhibit

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Works of 4 artists from Cuba, Sudan, and Vietnam.

For more information, phone Anh Nguyen at 315-422-1593 x210.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, Photographs By Geoffrey Clifford, 1985-2000
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Featuring works by: Vinh Dang, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Joshua Harris, Bea Lee, Mai Lee, Mao Yang Lee, Hye Yeon Nam, Anh Thao and Phong Vu.

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Judy Natal: The Hermetic Alphabet
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Community Darkrooms, Robt B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

German photographer Beatrix Reinhardt's images in the exhibition take an inside look at members-only clubs worldwide, which Reinhardt views as special entities that provide a community for their members while excluding everyone else. Her images capture the marks left behind by members of the club. They are devoid of people but speak volumes about club members.

Reinhardt spends most of her time making phone calls and knocking on doors to gain permission to enter clubs. Since starting the series in 2003, she has traveled to places as far away as Australia, Great Britain and China to capture these images. She is currently photographing in Queens, NY, where membership clubs are plentiful and rich in visuals. Some of these exclusive clubs can require years on a waiting list, and many have membership dues ranging from minimal to tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany, and has lived in the United States on and off for more than 10 years. She completed a residency at Light Work in January 2006 and has also participated in residencies in Australia, India and China. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Minnesota Center of Photography in Minneapolis, the Silver Eye Center of Photography in Pittsburgh, and Sam Romo in Atlanta. She will also have an exhibition this year in Finland.

Off Shoots: Post-Standard Staff Photographers
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features the work that the staff photographers of The Post-Standard make in their off hours. The images capture such subjects as family, friends, vacations, or personal projects.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

Overcoming Inertia: Works of Kathryn Rose Martini, fibers artist
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Kathryn Rose Martini graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Fiber Structure and Interlocking. Beyond exhibitions over the past 6 years she has used her interest in creativity within the community working with children, both in the visual arts and conducting dance interactive workshops hoping to promote a comfort and curiousity in the arts. She has donated her time and efforts to several local non-profit institutions and organizations. Recent work is on view through September 30 at the Delavan Art Gallery in their Fashion Fashion exhibition. Martini lives and works in Syracuse.

Through a Glass Dimly: Works of Willam Finch, painter
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

My Flesh and Blood
Redhouse

Price: $6
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

My Flesh and Blood opens with an uproarious Halloween celebration that refutes the stereotype of disabled children as victims, and ends as the family celebrates an unlikely birthday while confronting an enormous loss. Along with Susan Tom, the documentary focuses on five of her children.

Director Jonathan Karsh introduces us to the Tom household, where conflicts, never far from the surface, can erupt at any time. Explaining her decision to establish such a large brood, Susan Tom says, "If you can raise five kids, then it's not that far to go with six, and once you get to six, after that the noise level doesn't increase, and you're cooking big anyway. From six to 12 to 13 kids is not that big of a leap." (85 minutes  this film is not rated)

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase Committee Annual Members' Show
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Imagine! Painters and Poets of the New York School
SU Library's Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

On display will be material from the recently processed Grace Hartigan Papers, as well as from the University Art Collection, the Grove Press Archives, and SCRC's extensive holdings of art and literary magazines from the 1950s. Grace Hartigan (1922*) was a major participant in the explosion of creative energy that was the New York artistic and literary scene of the early 1950s. An important abstract expressionist painter, Hartigan was included in the famous show Twelve Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956. Her friends and correspondents included Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, Barbara Guest, and Joan Mitchell.

The exhibition is part of the Syracuse Symposium, which for 2006/2007 has chosen imagination as its theme.

Paid parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

Icons & Images: Processing the Work of Art

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Syracuse Technology Garden is pleased to present the first all digital art showcase in the Syracuse area. As part of a larger exhibition that includes painting and photography, nine digital artists have come together to show what this unique art form can offer.

For more information please call Lynn Hughes or Katie Rapp at 315-474-0910, x7902.

Refugee Art Exhibit

Price: Free
Center for New Americans
503 N. Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Works of 4 artists from Cuba, Sudan, and Vietnam.

For more information, phone Anh Nguyen at 315-422-1593 x210.

Gallery Exhibit: Jian-Guo Xu
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Mixed-media paintings bridging Eastern and Western artistic traditions.

Associated Artists Annual Juried Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

This year marks the 80th consecutive year that this show has taken place. It is the first year in the new gallery which is part of the recently expanded and remodeled Manlius Library. The Gordon Steele Medal will be awarded for Best of Show. This award, given out since 1962, includes a cash prize and a solo exhibit in the Library Gallery. This year's show is being juried by Merilee French Freeman and Claude Freeman, both Adjunct Professors of Painting in the Art Department at OCC.

Perspectives: Contemporary Asian Art, Culture and Identity
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Featuring works by: Vinh Dang, Lisa Jong-Soon Goodlin, Joshua Harris, Bea Lee, Mai Lee, Mao Yang Lee, Hye Yeon Nam, Anh Thao and Phong Vu.

Vietnam: Journey of the Heart, Photographs By Geoffrey Clifford, 1985-2000
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)

Learning Through The Lens: Collaborations with Children at the Edward Smith Elementary School
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

Off Shoots: Post-Standard Staff Photographers
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features the work that the staff photographers of The Post-Standard make in their off hours. The images capture such subjects as family, friends, vacations, or personal projects.

Members Only: Beatrix Reinhardt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

German photographer Beatrix Reinhardt's images in the exhibition take an inside look at members-only clubs worldwide, which Reinhardt views as special entities that provide a community for their members while excluding everyone else. Her images capture the marks left behind by members of the club. They are devoid of people but speak volumes about club members.

Reinhardt spends most of her time making phone calls and knocking on doors to gain permission to enter clubs. Since starting the series in 2003, she has traveled to places as far away as Australia, Great Britain and China to capture these images. She is currently photographing in Queens, NY, where membership clubs are plentiful and rich in visuals. Some of these exclusive clubs can require years on a waiting list, and many have membership dues ranging from minimal to tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Reinhardt grew up in Jena, Germany, and has lived in the United States on and off for more than 10 years. She completed a residency at Light Work in January 2006 and has also participated in residencies in Australia, India and China. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Minnesota Center of Photography in Minneapolis, the Silver Eye Center of Photography in Pittsburgh, and Sam Romo in Atlanta. She will also have an exhibition this year in Finland.

Judy Natal: The Hermetic Alphabet
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Community Darkrooms, Robt B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Vibrant hand-painted vines lace the gallery walls, cleverly tying together the diverse works and accentuating the "family tree" theme of the exhibition, "CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration". This family consists of members in the recently formed Coalition of Museum and Art Centers. CMAC, an initiative by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor, has a mission to celebrate and explore the visual and electronic arts through exhibitions, publications, education, and scholarship. CMAC brings together the programs, services, and projects of several different campus art centers and affiliated non-profit organizations in a collaborative effort to expand the public's awareness, understanding, and involvement in the arts.

CMAC: The Roots of Collaboration is a visual guide to the coalition organizations:

* SUArt Galleries is the new amalgamation of the Lowe Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. The Galleries' contribution to the exhibition illustrates the rich diversity of the permanent collection, from the haunting Renaissance images by Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach to the sharp social commentary of Goya. The department's strength in 20th century American art is seen in Martin Lewis' sweltering New York nocturne, Glow of the City, and in a pair of chromed Art Deco poodles by Boris Lovet-Lorski.

* Light Work's Permanent Collection includes work donated by participants in the Artist-in-Residence program. Selected for the exhibition is a photo from Chan Chao's series of Burmese Rebels, also chosen for the 2002 Whitney Biennial. A sense of calm and tenderness is captured, while also bringing greater awareness of the democracy movement in Burma. Carrie Mae Weems investigates the power of racial jokes and the tradition of oral history in a black-and-white photograph incorporating text. The signature weaving technique of Dinh Q. Lê is on view, combining images from the Vietnam War with stills from popular movies. Recognizing how Hollywood's representation of the war stretches from the hyper-real to the surreal, Lê suggests it produces a new kind of memory which is 'neither fact nor fiction.' Also exploring the border of culture and representation are the collaborative team Max Becher and Andrea Robbins. Their series German Indians looks at a long-standing German romanticization of the American West.

* The Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library displays classic images taken for Life magazine by Margaret Bourke-White, alongside her view camera and its travel case; 19th century sideshow performers from the Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenmann Photographs; the first comic strip character, the Yellow Kid, created by Richard Outcault; and playful sketches by the Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer.

* Community Folk Art Center contrasts fearsome masks from West Africa with carnivalesque ones from Mexico. The wooden Liberian visors, once part of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, and now in CFAC's permanent collection, incorporate natural materials such as feathers and hair. The devil faces flourished with festive paint are from the Mexican folk art collection of Alejandro Garcia, director of SU's School of Social Work.

* The finale of the show is the back room (the former vault of the building), devoted to The Warehouse Gallery's dreamy projection of the future. An enticing list of upcoming initiatives includes an Art Happy Hour for downtowners, a series highlighting young art collectives across North America, and a store for affordable, handcrafted art objects, among others. The gallery's mission is to engage the community in a dialogue regarding the role the arts can play in illuminating the critical issues of our times. Visitors can interact with the displays: a plant-shaped chalkboard asks viewers what they'd like to see in The Warehouse Gallery, clipboards gather information from potential collaborators, labeled Polaroids virtually introduce audiences to one another, and submission applications are dispensed. The gallery will commission Central New York artists to create unique installations for their street-level windows facing the busy intersection of West Fayette and West Streets.

Coalition members are each matched to an indigenous tree for the exhibition. This organizational strategy is in line with The Warehouse Gallery's lively, organic growth and novel way of incorporating regional idiosyncrasies into its international exhibitions.

Through a Glass Dimly: Works of Willam Finch, painter
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Overcoming Inertia: Works of Kathryn Rose Martini, fibers artist
The Warehouse Gallery

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Kathryn Rose Martini graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Fiber Structure and Interlocking. Beyond exhibitions over the past 6 years she has used her interest in creativity within the community working with children, both in the visual arts and conducting dance interactive workshops hoping to promote a comfort and curiousity in the arts. She has donated her time and efforts to several local non-profit institutions and organizations. Recent work is on view through September 30 at the Delavan Art Gallery in their Fashion Fashion exhibition. Martini lives and works in Syracuse.

Insightful and Incidental: Portraits from the Collection of Robert M. Infarinato
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Encompasses both insightful images, where the sitter is posed in a setting to illustrate the subject's character or physical form; and incidental portraits, created on the spur of the moment. Photographic art by Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Mary Ellen Mark.

Reclaiming Midwives: Stills from All My Babies
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlights the importance of African-American midwives in Southern communities. Robert Gailbrath's black and white photographs document the renowned film All My Babies, nationally utilized as a training film for midwives.

Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery
Syracuse University Art Museum

University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explores a principle component of the Art Nouveau movement: the Decorative Arts. Works by of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle and Frederick Carder, including several of Tiffany's most original works, including examples of his trademark favrile glass.

The Elegant Salon
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Explore the popularity of European Academic style paintings in America during the first decade of the 20th century. Included are paintings by William Adolphe Bouguereau, Jean Leon Gerome, Rudolph Ernst, and Max Gaisser.

Modern Prints from the International Graphic Arts Society
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

Included are prints by Garo Antresian, Gabor Peterdi, and Donald Saff, three printmakers who taught a generation of artists and had a profound impact on the art of printmaking in the latter half of the 20th century.

W. Eugene Smith: From Light into Darkness
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
University Art Collection
Sims Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition of photojournalist Eugene Smith includes his service as a World War II photographer in the Pacific theater, a group from a 1950s Life magazine photo essay on the rise of America's chemical industry, and a selection of images from his Pittsburgh project.

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t)
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Miriam Beerman: Eloquent Pain(t) surveys the intense paintings created by the artist since her 1990 retrospective held at the New Jersey State Museum. Many of Beerman's paintings are inspired by traumatic and agonizing historical events. Eloquent Pain(t) will highlight how poetry has been a consistent element of inspiration in the artist's later works. After opening at the Everson, the exhibition will travel to the Queensborough Art Gallery.

Scale
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Jeanne Gang and Mark Schendel of Studio Gang Architects

Price: Free
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Jeanne Gang is the principal and founder of Studio Gang. She formed the practice in 1997 after significant experience as a senior designer in Chicago with BHA and in Rotterdam with OMA/Rem Koolhaas. She leads the design teams at Studio Gang and collaborates directly with clients. Her focus on materials, technology and sustainability is supported through a mode of working that combines practice, teaching and research. Her work with Studio Gang has received national and international awards and recognition.

Mark Schendel, also a principal of Studio Gang, practiced with a number firms before joining Studio Gang, including six years as senior architect with OMA/Rem Koolhaas. He oversees construction documentation and administration on the firm's projects. Recent projects of the firm include the Starlight Theatre in Rockford, Ill., and the Aqua Tower in Chicago.

For information on parking at The Warehouse, phone 315-443-8238.

Around the World in 80 Days
Syracuse Stage
Russell Treyz, director

Price: $26, $24, $22 (adults); $18 (teens); $15 (children)
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Climb on board for laughter and adventure as five highly spirited actors joyously recreate Phileas Fogg's exciting trip around the world in 80 days. The year is 1872, the wager is £20,000, the means of transport is pure imagination, and the prize -- true love. All this and an elephant, too.

Play by Mark Brown, based on the novel by Jules Verne.

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